Updated Jan. 29, 2019 | by Paolo De Gregorio

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Here’s the Aggregate Shortlist of the Best Guitar Pedals Presented at NAMM 2019

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NEW DELAY/ECHO PEDALS
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Eventide Rose
10. A delay that marries digital precision with the lush sound of analog. With six knobs and delay multiplier, phase invert/reverse playback and shape buttons offering five modulation sources, Rose inspires petals of creativity to bloom. Five presets, MIDI control and a fully assignable aux switch/expression pedal input offer flexible versatility. Plug in and experience botanical bliss!
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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keeley eccos
$249 - Based around the company’s proprietary Dream technology featuring 24-bit digital signal processing for the most authentic sounds available. It goes a step further by adding tape-flange to the delay trails, adding a unique modulation vibe to your sound that is easy to dial in to your taste.
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3947544368
free the tone future factory
$500+ - Hailed as the world’s first random fluctuating phase modulation pedal. The two delay units can be used in series or parallel (stereo) modes with controls over virtually every parameter imaginable. It’s not just a delay though, as the name implies. There are a number of high-quality digital modulation effects available including vibrato, tremolo, and panning.
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Caroline Megabyte Lo-Fi Delay
Building on the legacy of the Kilobyte, the Megabyte changes the game of delay and lets loose with a wide variety of options.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
356703795
Alexander Radical Delay DX
$199 - The NEO version of this ‘80s flavored delay packs extra features like Preset, Morph function, Trails and Ramp, with six delay modes from pitch-shifted to dynamic and arpeggiating delays. and the more ordinary dual and Modulated. The Tweak knob controls mode-specific parameters.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
60308717
Emma Navigator Delay
$259 - A lush sounding tap-tempo delay with modulation. The unique Second knob acts as a mix control between the main repeats and the “beat-split delay repeats,” i.e. the repeats that fall in between the main delay’s ones and whose timing is controlled by the Subdivision toggle switch.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
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lunastone dynamic delay
Dynamic delays have been a secret weapon of the recording studio for a while, and they are becoming increasingly popular in guitar pedals. The Lunastone Dynamic Delay is built around an analog circuit that marries those classic sounds with the advantages and benefits of digital delays.
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674607719
Daredevil Bootleg Dirty Delay
An analog delay designed to give classic tones that sound similar to vintage tape machines, increasingly more lo-fi and dirty when driven at intense or longer settings. The Dirt section of the circuit adds gain to the repeats. The decay will become brighter as it tails off...the opposite of most "tape style" delay units.
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Joyo Aquarius
Offering up eight delay modes plus an onboard looper, the Joyo Aquarius doesn't skimp on features, giving you plenty of bang for your buck.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
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Foxgear Echosex Baby
$129 | A shrunk and stylized version of the Guru Amps Echosex delay pedal, which was inspired by the vintage Binson Echorec. Features an "Age" knob which adds vintage character to the repeats
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456440102
Dunable Eidolon
a compact-ish multi-effect device that allows you to get your lead tone in one stomp. Features a fully integrated digital delay, reverb, and boost
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Strymon Volante
$399 - A stereo delay/looper that emulates three of the most sought-after vintage delay devices: tape echo, drum, and reel-to-reel. Controls allow you to fine tune the character, fidelity, brightness, saturation and age of the repeats, for more or less vintage-sounding results. Presets, Tap Tempo and spring reverb are some of the many extras.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
3690738468
Red Panda Particle V2 Granular Delay
18. V2 of Red Panda’s Granular Delay sports completely rewritten firmware, as well as high-performance 32-bit processing and conversion,. It runs at a higher sampling rate, with more headroom and lower noise than the original. Interactive controls mean a small change can make a huge difference in tone. It offers features like presets, tap tempo, and freeze.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Old Blood Noise RÊVER
$247 - It hosts two "signal blocks" whose order can be changed using the toggle switch. Block 1 allows for a momentary reverse of the signal. Block 2 is a modulated reverb that is fed into a delay. With the reverse at the start and reverb and delay after, the sound tends to feel washier and the reverse is smoother. The other way around you have a more pronounced and glitch-like reverse effect.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
3154456041
Rainger FX Drone Rainger Digital Delay
12. From the mad science lab of Rainger FX comes the most feature-packed digital delay any of us have seen, including two secondary drone voices that play along with you.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
576095681
Seymour Duncan Dark Sun Delay - Reverb
2. The Dark Sun encompasses everything there is to know about spatial effects with a multimode delay and reverb in one unit.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Supro 1313 Delay
$219 | A vintage sounding echo esigned by Howard Davis of Memory Deluxe fame, Controls are limited to just four knobs, a footswitch and a 3-mode expression pedal input (assignable to Level, Time or Repeats through the toggle switch). A unique Filter knob can take the sound from a dark analog BBD-style to a bright tape echo.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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NEW EQ+FILTER PEDALS
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Catalinbread Coriolis Effect
This twisted box gives you all the best from freeze, octave, glitch and harmonizer boxes with an easy-to-use interface and extensive expression options.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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3170177413
Pigtronix Resotron Pitch-Filter Synth
~$120 | Using the same chip as classic synths such as the Prophet 5, it features BP, HP, and LP filters, envelope up and down modes as well as a unique analog pitch tracking mode that changes the filter frequency based on the notes you play. Comes with controls for peak, cutoff, sensitivity, blend, and glide (attack). Oscillate mode turns it into a self-oscillating synth.
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TWA MINIMORPH
A stripped down version of TWA's flagship Dynamorph, this is a dynamically responsive envelop controlled fuzz, without the actual envelop section. But although stripped down, it’s still a pedal that lets you do a lot of different things.
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Shift Line A+ PRISM-9 Filter Pad
A complex, fully-featured effect that embraces analog synthesis techniques — particularly modulation and filtering. The circuit includes also pitch shifting and a room reverb. Two “global modes (Classic and Modern) route the parts of the circuit in different ways, which produces different results.
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416030487
Poly Effects Morph
A digitally controlled analog multi-effect featuring Drive, Compression, Filter, and a Sequencercontrolled through a touchscreen.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon

NEW LOOPER PEDALS
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Chase Bliss Audio Blooper Looper
A collaborative looper that lets you do crazy things to the sampled audio.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Joyo Aquarius
Offering up eight delay modes plus an onboard looper, the Joyo Aquarius doesn't skimp on features, giving you plenty of bang for your buck.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon

NEW MODULATION PEDALS
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Thorpy FX Deep Oggin
$320 - Designed in collaboration with legendary British designer Dan Coggins of Lovetone Pedals, The Oggins is a fully analog effect designed to provide a 3 dimensional chorus sounds with a level of versatility to meet the needs of all guitarists. The five knobs control Depth, Rate, Blend, Volume and Treble. It has both Dry and Wet outputs.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
307108993
Walrus Audio Lillian
$199 | based on the same concept as the Julia (the company's popular chorus) and sharing the same number of controls, the Lillian features knobs for Rate, Width and Feedback and a toggle switch to select between 6 or 4 stages. The bottom right D-P-V knob acts as an enhanced Mix control that adds some vibrato at higher settings.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Wampler Terraform
A multi-mode, stereo, digital modulation pedal from Wampler, with Tap Tempo and Presets.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Mad Professor Double Moon
$289 - A multi modulation pedal that features 11 different modes: 3 choruses, 3 dual chorus effects, 3 flangers, flanger+chorus, and vibrato. Four shared controls manipulate the tone of the modulation setting: Speed, Depth, Tone, and Control – which shapes the LFO wave or Regen of the selected effect.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
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Fender Pinwheel
$269 | A stereo, digital rotary speaker pedal that features three different rotary speaker voices, including Fender's own Vibratone effect, switchable Slow and Fast speeds, and an onboard Overdrive for added texture. The Sensitivity control allows modulation rate changes based on your playing dynamics. Selectable guitar and keyboard voicings
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Fender Bubbler
$150 - A stereo chorus pedal with a fully analog circuit. It features Slow and Fast speeds with independent Rate and Depth controls. A toggle switches between Sine and Triangular waveform. The Sensitivity control allows modulation rate changes based on your playing dynamics.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Fender Lost Highway
$149 | Like a rotary pedal, this phaser has two footswitchable speeds, each separately adjustable through separate rate and depth knobs. There are also controls for Blend, Feedback and Sens as well as switches for 4/8 phases and sine/triangle.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Paradox FX Futura Chorus
$199 - An analog BBD chorus/vibrato pedal with an envelope follower. There is a footswitch to enable envelop activation, and it can be set to latching or momentary functionality. The envelope section has switches to determine the rate and depth of the swell direction.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
2983814170
Body-Mod
A modulation pedal with three modes: Chorus, Flange, and Octave. The Flux control adds special effects to each mode: In Chorus, an upper octave and at full rotation the pitches spiral up and out of range. In Flanger, it acts as a simple resonance dial, allowing you to get the right amount of metallic zing. The Octave provides parallel sub and upper octave signals that can be filtered with the Flux knob.
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2694520203
Joe Gore Purr Vibrato
With just one dead-simple knob, Joe Gore's Purr Vibrato gives you an all-in-one "Goldilocks" style vibe unit that shakes hands with your tone.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
21600780
Outlaw Phunnel Cloud Phaser
$55 | A classic, analog phase shifting modulation effect, at home across a wide array of musical styles. A voicing toggle switch lets you choose between a warm, rich, mid 1970's-era sound (THEN), and a more modern setting (NOW) that offers a fuller, cleaner, more dramatic effect.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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SolidGoldFX Lysis Fuzz + Modulation
SolidGold's filter/synth/fuzz pedal inches closer to a proper release---this one's a doozy!
eBay | Reverb | Amazon

NEW MULTI-FX PEDALS
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Hotone Ampero
A stereo, dual-core modeling digital pedal featuring the powerful multi-effect section of Xtomp and able to run up to 9 effects at a time.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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MOD Devices Duo X
This tabletop unit is a gamechanger for those who prefer to do their effects up front rather than on the floor.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
4206133039
Tech 21 Fly Rig 5 v2
A portable all-in-one pedal bar for the traveling guitarist with Fender amp-style voicing from Tech 21's time tested SanSamp analog amp emulation technology, followed, in this order by a Boost, a Plexi style overdrive, a delay and a reverb. V2 presents a series of new features including tuner and tap tempo.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
416030487
Poly Effects Morph
A digitally controlled analog multi-effect featuring Drive, Compression, Filter, and a Sequencercontrolled through a touchscreen.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon

NEW PITCH PEDALS
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TC Electronic Brainwaves
Polyphonic stereo pitch shifter with 7 modes including Whammy, Detune, Voice ½, Pitch, and Toneprint. Detune mode can go from subtle chorusing to atonal insanity. Pitch mode is adds two notes to your original one up to one octave above or below it. Mix control lets you blend in your clean signal. The MASH button is customizable and pressure sensitive.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
1542186785
Catalinbread Coriolis Effect
This twisted box gives you all the best from freeze, octave, glitch and harmonizer boxes with an easy-to-use interface and extensive expression options.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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NEW REVERB PEDALS
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Old Blood Noise RÊVER
$247 - It hosts two "signal blocks" whose order can be changed using the toggle switch. Block 1 allows for a momentary reverse of the signal. Block 2 is a modulated reverb that is fed into a delay. With the reverse at the start and reverb and delay after, the sound tends to feel washier and the reverse is smoother. The other way around you have a more pronounced and glitch-like reverse effect.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
3729855009
Milkman Sound F-Stop
$249 - It encloses the spring reverb and tremolo from the company's amp into a compact pedal. The reverb drips, and the VCA tremolo is pure creamy goodness. The two effects have separate footswitches and two controls each (Blend + Decay for the reverb and Speed and Depth for the tremolo). A Rear trim pot controls the tremolo output level
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
576095681
Seymour Duncan Dark Sun Delay - Reverb
2. The Dark Sun encompasses everything there is to know about spatial effects with a multimode delay and reverb in one unit.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Fender tre-verb
18. A pedal that recreates all the Reverb and Tremolo Effects from the vintage Fender amps. Features two individually footswtichable effects. On the Reverb side, '63, '65 and a classic Plate setting, calling to mind vintage outboard 'verb units featuring the same control set that used to be included on them. The Trem has Opto, Bias and HM (harmonic) modes, spanning the history of the effect.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Shift-Line Everest Reverb + Delay
$179 - A Reverb + Delay pedal featuring a "psychedelic mode" (Moonshine) that adds an octave up to filtered delay repeats, while the dry signal bypasses the filter. High frequencies are naturally rolled off as the volume decreases. An octave down is mixed in with the reverb reflections. The other two modes (Sunshine and Eclipse) are a bright and dark variation.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
1095539179
Anasounds Element Reverb
16. This all-analog reverb boasts what few other reverb pedals can: reliance on real springs! Connect the Element to La Brute and hit the waves!
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
2064713486
Dwarfcraft Devices Treeverb
$199 - 3-mode reverb with deep but intuitive control. Hall is a traditional, long reverb, with controls for Tone, Pre-delay (Character),and Length. Pitch mode has an octave up and an octave down. Modulated features a large reverb with a chorus on the wet signal. The Character knob dials in chorus from an almost subliminal cycle to a deep vibrato.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Matthews Effects Cosmonaut V2
$199 - An eerie spatial exploration of artifact for bold explorers, this reverb OR delay pedal (they can't be played simulatneously) features two identical channels with three separate sets of controls. The three modes (Modulated Reverb, Plate Reverb and Tape Echo) can be selected from the side panel.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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NEW ROUTING PEDALS
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EarthQuaker Devices Swiss Things
8. Presented as a “pedalboard reconciler” it does that, while also solving recurring problems related to loss of quality and cable mess. It features two effects loops, an AB-Y box, buffered tuner output, 20dB of clean boost with adjustable gain, expression pedal output for volume control and clean headroom. Loop 1 is un-buffered for use with gain pedals, while Loop 2 is buffered for time-based effects.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation 2
The Total Sonic Annihilation 2 features totally new functionality and additional controls, creating wildly warped alien space sounds. It creates a “controllable feedback loop,” (the big knob) that – when the pedal is on – sends back to your effects their own wet signal, feeding their output back into their input as much or as little as you want. Extra features like boost/phase switches and limiter let you fine-tune the sound.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Spaceman Effects Mission Control
5. Through some clever routing, Spaceman's Mission Control sits front and center on your board, giving you a blank canvas of tone sculpting.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
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Joyo Cab Box
$169 | Featuring a giant full-color LCD screen, this IR cab loader includes 20 cab models, 11 microphone types, 4 power amp simulations, programmable EQ, and 32 presets. It can load third party IR and connects to your PC for in depth editing. Programmable Parametric/Graphic EQ, Midi In and Heaphones out round up the features.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon

NEW SAMPLE MANGLERS
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Red Panda Particle V2 Granular Delay
18. V2 of Red Panda’s Granular Delay sports completely rewritten firmware, as well as high-performance 32-bit processing and conversion,. It runs at a higher sampling rate, with more headroom and lower noise than the original. Interactive controls mean a small change can make a huge difference in tone. It offers features like presets, tap tempo, and freeze.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Cooper FX Moment Machine
$200+ - One of the most tweakable (and yet easy to use) pitch shifters available in hardware form. Featuring two independent polyphonic pitch shifting engines, a powerful sixteen step sequencer, and over two hundred user adjustable parameters.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
1542186785
Catalinbread Coriolis Effect
This twisted box gives you all the best from freeze, octave, glitch and harmonizer boxes with an easy-to-use interface and extensive expression options.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Reverb Amazon

NEW SYNTH PEDALS
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Electro-Harmonix Mono Synth
It transforms your guitar into eleven great sounding synthesizers… from vintage synth emulations to fat, stacked voices to soaring lead sounds and more. Mix knob lets you reintegrate the clean signal.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Pigtronix Resotron Pitch-Filter Synth
~$120 | Using the same chip as classic synths such as the Prophet 5, it features BP, HP, and LP filters, envelope up and down modes as well as a unique analog pitch tracking mode that changes the filter frequency based on the notes you play. Comes with controls for peak, cutoff, sensitivity, blend, and glide (attack). Oscillate mode turns it into a self-oscillating synth.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
171748314
keeley synth-1
$199 | A Synth Wave Generator providing three different waveforms (sine, saw and square, controllable through foot action). Features a big filter knob and smaller Level, Attack (4ms is the fastest it gets) and Blend ones. A Chaos switch introduces more unpredictable tracking and other special effects. The filter's frequency can be controlled via expression pedal.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Gamechanger Audio Motor
An avant-garde synth pedal which can track the guitar signal with 6 oscillators in the form of motors, which produce a variety of sounds when they spin.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Beetronics Swarm
23. A wild sounding "fuzz harmonizer" with mysteriously named controls. WORKER Bee is your fuzz guitar tone. QUEEN and DRONE bees are the two harmonies. The SPECIES gives you 9 different pitch options for the harmonies. The FLIGHT and STING both control the way the harmonies react.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Glou-Glou Moutarde
$500 - The Moutarde's core consists in 4 Filters, whose Frequency, Resonance and Modulation depth can be controlled independently. They can be fed by your regular signal (with our without gated fuzz applied, pre-filter) or through 4 Audio Controlled Square Wave Oscillators. Octaves, fifths, simple or complex chords can be obtained by tweaking 2 rotary swicthes. (VOICINGS)  and (TRANSPOSE).
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Electro-Harmonix Bass Mono Synth
$144 | Bringing 11 vintage emulations of fat analog synths, it lets you fine tune the dry and wet signal with separate knobs, while providing a Sensitivity knob to adjust the tracking response. An extra Ctrl knob affects a parameter that varies depending on the selected mode. Each mode can have a preset, and an expression pedal lets you control another parameter.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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416030487
Poly Effects Morph
A digitally controlled analog multi-effect featuring Drive, Compression, Filter, and a Sequencercontrolled through a touchscreen.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon

NEW TREMOLO PEDALS
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Fender tre-verb
18. A pedal that recreates all the Reverb and Tremolo Effects from the vintage Fender amps. Features two individually footswtichable effects. On the Reverb side, '63, '65 and a classic Plate setting, calling to mind vintage outboard 'verb units featuring the same control set that used to be included on them. The Trem has Opto, Bias and HM (harmonic) modes, spanning the history of the effect.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
3729855009
Milkman Sound F-Stop
$249 - It encloses the spring reverb and tremolo from the company's amp into a compact pedal. The reverb drips, and the VCA tremolo is pure creamy goodness. The two effects have separate footswitches and two controls each (Blend + Decay for the reverb and Speed and Depth for the tremolo). A Rear trim pot controls the tremolo output level
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Mastro Valvola LFO Tremolo
An optical tremolo like those found in classic amplifiers. While the tone is analog, it’s controlled digitally and offers effects otherwise impossible with a standard tremolo. A total of 16 different waveforms make it one of the most versatile optical tremolo pedals available. Tap tempo features 3 subdivisions and a switch to select between them so you can dial it in perfectly for the part.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Coppersound Loma Prieta Harmonic Tremolo
A gritty, Harmonic Tremolo with four Wave-Shape modes (Sine, Square, Ramp Up, and Ramp Down), determined to rumble the ground beneath your feet. Each mode can be used in conjunction with our momentary “Shift” Footswitch, which engages Tap Tempo, as well as Lo-Fi, Feedback Distortion, and Double-Time effects.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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foxpedal quiver harmonic tremolo
The Foxpedal Quiver is a harmonic tremolo with some very cool features. There are controls for Level, Frequency, Symmetry, Rate, and Depth of the waveform. There are 5 different waveform shapes to choose from, and there is even control over the subdivision of the effect.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
1926492984
Amptweaker SwirlPool Jr Tremolo/Vibe
A mini version of the popular SwirlPool. It uses the same all-analog circuitry, which is reminiscent of the synchronized Tremolo and Vibrato circuits common in some vintage 60’s amplifiers, but it can slightly shift the LFO to create a variety of swirly effects.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon

 

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